Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-04-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:768-776,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, accepted for the publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11831.x
We have carried out a comparative statistical study for the displacement of the Sun from the Galactic plane (z_\odot) following three different methods. The study has been done using a sample of 537 young open clusters (YOCs) with log(Age) < 8.5 lying within a heliocentric distance of 4 kpc and 2030 OB stars observed up to a distance of 1200 pc, all of them have distance information. We decompose the Gould Belt's member in a statistical sense before investigating the variation in the z_\odot estimation with different upper cut-off limits in the heliocentric distance and distance perpendicular to the Galactic plane. We found z_\odot varies in a range of ~ 13 - 20 pc from the analys is of YOCs and ~ 6 - 18 pc from the OB stars. A significant scatter in the z_\odot obtained due to different cut-off values is noticed for the OB stars although no such deviation is seen for the YOCs. We also determined scale heights of 56.9(+3.8)(-3.4} and 61.4(+2.7)(-2.4) pc for the distribution of YOCs and OB stars respectively.
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